Tag: Moon
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Want To Own a Piece of Moon Rock? Now You Can Buy One Cheap! [pic]
Even thought I wasn’t alive for the moon landings decades ago, I have always been obsessed with the moon and space in general. I often find myself just standing outside at night staring at the moon or other planets and stars (if the moon isn’t visible) dreaming of one day being able to leave earth…
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Amazing picture of the moon and Venus over Switzerland [pic]
On Wednesday’s Astronomy Picture of the Day feature on the NASA website, they posted this amazing picture (below) that was taken by David Kaplan. The photo was taken above the village of Trübbach, Switzerland and it shows the moon and Venus in the upper right and the mountain Mittlerspitz in the middle. Although it looks really cold with…
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Total lunar eclipse visible tonight
Image via Wikipedia If you live in North or Central America, tonight is the first time in nearly 3 years that you can see a total lunar eclipse. The spectacular space show gets started at 10:33pm PST and ends at 2:01am. The total eclipse part will take place between 11:41pm PST and 12:53am. The last…